If you're walking at a steady velocity, then (negating air resistance and stuff) it ought to land back in your hand.
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Hil R. - Oct 22, 2006 6:23:09 pm PDT #4843 of 10001
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tommyrot - Oct 22, 2006 6:27:41 pm PDT #4844 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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sumi - Oct 22, 2006 6:32:54 pm PDT #4845 of 10001
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Emily - Oct 22, 2006 6:53:33 pm PDT #4846 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
it ought to land back in your hand.
Like, if you keep walking, or if you stop immediately after throwing it up?
ETA: Let me just add, I feel like a total moron for not knowing this right off, but... well, but I think it's a really bad experiment and demonstrates exactly nothing, since there's no way to orient your throwing muscles in exactly and only one direction and turn off your compensating brain.
§ ita § - Oct 22, 2006 7:02:38 pm PDT #4847 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The ball has the momentum of your forward movement as well as the thrown momentum. So it'd land right back in your hand...as long as you keep walking. Otherwise it'll land in front of you.
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Emily - Oct 22, 2006 7:20:47 pm PDT #4848 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Right, that's what I thought (as long as you don't, say, compensate for your forward movement because you think you're supposed to).
§ ita § - Oct 22, 2006 7:37:30 pm PDT #4849 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think most people do. It'd be something I'd have to think about doing--tossing a ball up in the air and expecting it to come right back down to the same relative point, moving or stationary, is second nature for me. Anything else would be forced, and probably ill-calculated.
tommyrot - Oct 22, 2006 7:38:06 pm PDT #4850 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Emily, you're over-thinking the problem....
§ ita § - Oct 22, 2006 7:42:12 pm PDT #4851 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
tommyrot - Oct 22, 2006 7:43:25 pm PDT #4852 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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